Akansha Jain, M4
MSTP Learning Community: Bean
MSTP Entry Date: June 11, 2018
Graduate Program:
Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Mentor:
Committees:
2019 (Spring) - MOHD II Committee Liaison
2019 (Fall) - MOHD IV Committee Liaison
2018-2020 - MSTP Seminar Committee
2018-present - MSTP Retreat & I Heart Science Committee
2019-present - APSA Institutional Representative
Awards:
2018 - Excellence in Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Research, Medical Student Research Conference, Sept 14
2021 - American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Research Award
2022 & 2023 - Best Trainee Internal Medicine Research Day Poster Award, 1st place
2022 & 2023 - Internal Medicine Grand Rounds Presentations
2022 - American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
2022 - 37th Annual MD-PhD National Student Conference, Oral Presentation
2023 - Graduate and Professional Student Government Research Grant
2023 - University of Iowa Three Minute Thesis Finalist
2023 - Cold Spring Harbor Mechanisms of Metabolic Signaling Poster Presentation
2023 - Successful PhD defense
2023 - Howard Hughes Institute Meeting Poster Presentation
2024 - Futures in Neurologic Research Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
2024 - PBI Best Paper Competition Finalist
2024 - PBI Best Paper Competition 2nd place
2022, 2023, 2024 - AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting Poster Presentations
2024 - Health Sciences Research Day, Mini Symposium Talk
Teaching:
2020 Fall - MSTP USMLE Step 1 tutor
Mentoring students in Welsh lab
Education:
2017 - BA, Biology - University of Pennsylvania
Publications:
Guardia CM, Jain A, Mattera R, Friefeld A, Li Y, Bonifacino JS. RUSC2 and WDR47 oppositely regulate kinesin-1-dependent distribution of ATG9A to the cell periphery. Mol Biol Cell. 2021 Aug 25:mbcE21060295. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E21-06-0295. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34432492. (Pre-MSTP Publication)
Yu W, Moninger TO, Thurman AL, Xie Y, Jain A, Zarei K, Powers LS, Pezzulo AA, Stoltz DA, Welsh MJ. Cellular and molecular architecture of submucosal glands in wild-type and cystic fibrosis pigs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Jan 25;119(4). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2119759119. PubMed PMID: 35046051; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8794846.
Rehman T, Karp PH, Thurman AL, Mather SE, Jain A, Cooney AL, Sinn PL, Pezzulo AA, Duffey ME, Welsh MJ. WNK Inhibition Increases Surface Liquid pH and Host Defense in Cystic Fibrosis Airway Epithelia. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2022 Jul 18. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2022-0172OC. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35849656.
Jain, A, Kim, B., Yu, W., Moninger, T., Karp, P., Wagner, B., Welsh, M. (2024) Mitochondrial uncoupling proteins protect human airway epithelial ciliated cells from oxidative damage. PNAS. PMID: 38416686.
Johnson,D., Colijn, S., Richee, J., Yano, J., Burns, M., Davis, A. E., Pham, V. N., Saric, A., Jain, A., Yin, Y., Castranova, D., Melani, M., Fujita, M., Grainger, S., Bonifacino, J., Weinstein, B. M., and Stratman, A. N. (2024). Regulation of angiogenesis by endocytic trafficking mediated by cytoplasmic dynein 1 light intermediate chain 1. BioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.01.587559.
Abou Alaiwa, M.H. Hilkin, B.M., Price, M.P., Gansemer, N.D., Rector, M.R., Stroik, M.R., Powers, L.S., Whitworth, K.M., Samuel, M.S., Jain, A., Ostedgaard, L.S., Ernst, S.E., Philibet, W., Boyken, L.D., Moninger, T.O., Karp, P.H., Hornick, D.B., Sinn, P.L., Fischer, A.J., Pezzulo, A.A., McCray, P.B., Meyerholz, D.K., Zabner, J., Prather, R.S., Welsh., M.J., Stoltz, D.A. (2024) Development and initial characterization of pigs with DNAI1 mutations and primary ciliary dyskinesia [Preprint]. doi:10.1101/2024.05.22.594822.
